NEXUS IS THE LARGEST SCALE INNOVATION AGENDA FOR THE PORT, MULTIMODAL AND TRANSPORT SECTOR IN PORTUGAL
Headed by the Port of Sines Authority, NEXUS is focused on digital and green transition for the logistics chain.


MISSION
NEXUS Agenda aims to create an innovation ecosystem that promotes the green and digital transition of the transport and logistics sector, with a special focus on the multimodal corridors of Sines

VISION
To place Port of Sines as a catalyst for an ecosystem of international reference in terms of the green and digital transition, creating innovative and accessible products and services that promote the sustainable development of the transport and logistics sector.

RESULTS
Selected under the Mobilising Agendas for Business Innovation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), the NEXUS Agenda aims to create an ecosystem of 28 products and services for the Digital and Green Transition in the transport and multimodality sector.

CONSORTIUM
The NEXUS Agenda consortium is headed by the Port of Sines and comprises 35 partners sharing the ambition to develop innovative solutions aiming at achieving both a Green and Digital Transition Agenda. Representative of the whole value chain, the consortium gathers port authorities, maritime, terminal and railway operators, carriers, dry ports, logistics operators, technology suppliers, importers and exporters, being supported by universities and research institutes, whose skills and expertise will pay an important role on the fulfilment of this pioneering Agenda.

NEXUS FRAMEWORK

The core product of the NEXUS ecosystem of products and services is the NEXUS OPEN DATA COLLABORATION PLATFORM connected to a set of NEXUS FEDERATED APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES, comprising innovative solutions developed for international commercialisation. Each will have their own Unique Selling Proposition and Go To Market Strategy, via NEXUS or as stand-alone solutions, that are also connected to the NEXUS HARDWARE ASSETS, innovative hardware-based products, that exploit IoT principles, providing considerable synergies with the Open Data Collaboration Platform and the Applications and Services. Each of these will have its own Digital Twin representation that will be connected to the Open Data Platform, to share and receive data considered useful for improved performance of the operations.

The NEXUS Agenda will produce an ecosystem of 28 innovative products and services for Digital and Green Transition in the transport and multimodal sector. The overall NEXUS offer is composed of 3 main categories: open data collaboration platform; federated applications and services and hardware assets.













